Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Eminent Domain Clause
The Fifth Amendment provision providing that private property cannot be taken for public use without just compensation.
domain
n. 1. The territory over which sovereignty is exercised <the 19th-century domains of the British Empire>. 2. An estate in land <the family domain is more than 6,000 acres>. 3. The complete and absolute ownership of land <his domain over this land has now been settled>. See EMINENT DOMAIN; PUBLIC DOMAIN.
domain-name infringement
Infringement of another's trademark or servicemark by the use of a confusingly similar Internet domain name.
eminent domain
The inherent power of a governmental entity to take privately owned property, esp. land, and convert it to public use, subject to reasonable compensation for the taking. See CONDEMNATION (2); EXPROPRIATION; TAKING (2)."The term 'eminent domain' is said to have originated with Grotius, the seventeenth century legal scholar. Grotius believed that the state possessed the power to take or destroy property for the benefit of the social unit, but he believed that when the st
public domain
1. Government-owned land. 2. The realm of publications, inventions, and processes that are not protected by copyright or patent. ( Things in the public domain can be appropriated by anyone without liability for infringement. "[P]ublic domain is the status of an invention, creative work, commercial symbol, or any other creation that is not protected by any form of intellectual property. Public domain is the rule: intellectual property is the exception." 1 J. Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition $ 1.01[2], at 1-3 (3d ed. 1996).